Will Smith (baseball)

Tournament host Southern Mississippi rocked Old Dominion 17-5 in the first round of Conference USA’s double-elimination playoffs in Hattiesburg.

The sixth-seeded Monarchs will play an elimination game Thursday afternoon against Florida International, which lost 5-3 to Marshall.

ODU took a 5-4 lead on second-inning home runs by Kyle Beam and Zach Rutherford, but the Eagles knocked ODU starter Victor Diaz out in the second inning and kept rolling. Daniel Keating had five RBI and Tim Lynch four for USM.

CAA: Kyle Weston’s RBI single to left field in the bottom of the ninth gave...

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Central Division
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